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Codemasters’ Pete Shea has attacked handheld console publishers who blame poor games on the platform. Shea’s “Race Driver: Create and Race” game (see image above) for the DS has a plethora of options, only usually found in a home console game.
Shea believes that portable console games (and I would assume to some extent mobile games) should still offer a good set of features for the price:
“It annoys me as a games consumer that many publishers seem to think it’s okay to treat a portable title on DS, as if it were a mobile phone game, or a PSOne game.”
I don’t personally own a DS, so I couldn’t comment on the general quality of the games – but having extensively used a PSP, I can see Shea’s point – some ports to wreak of being badly (or even worse, lazily) coded, when there is no need. Whilst Mobile games provide that “dip in and use” element, portable console games should offer something a bit more, especially when they are costing 5-6x more…..!
[Via: Computer & Video Games]
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Ben Robinson
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
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